Interesting that you should mention this, John Jason, as when using Windows XP, I noticed that for non-ASCII symbols, the Alt + (0 followed by) Unicode decimal code procedure worked only in word processors like OOo or Word, but not, for example, in Gmail. But in Feisty, the Ctrl + Shift + u procedure works universally, at least as far as my love of experiment has been able to carry me....
Henri 2007/5/25, John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 12:31:02 +0200 "M Henri Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > Fascinating, but confusing - in your case, the ISO-14755 standard works, > while John Jason and I must add a «u» to our procedure ! Can this be because > you are using Dapper, while we are using Feisty ? Sounds counter-intuitive > to me, but one never knows. It would be interesting to about the experiences > of other Ubuntu users.... This is absolutely correct. The standard is an OS thing. Actually, it is not just an OS thing, it is a change made in the Linux kernel (that's way deep down inside the OS). The kernel used by Dapper was the last one where the old method (Ctrl+Shift+hex) worked. I discovered last December that the old method no longer worked and I had to use Ctrl +Shift+u+hex after I upgraded Dapper to Edgy. The change to the new method was required in order to gain access to all Unicode glyphs in the 16-bit registers. Note that Windows Alt+decimal will have to change as well, although probably Microsoft will just require you to type six more zeroes in front of the actual number. So as long as Hagar is on Dapper he must use Ctrl+Shift+hex. That will work in all applications except OpenOffice.org. To do so in OOo he must have openoffice.org-gnome and -gtk installed. That is because OOo does not handle Unicode glyphs above ASCII 255 correctly, so those two modules are required in order to "translate" OOo font requests for Unicode glyphs into Linux-speak. My dim understanding of OOo and fonts on Linux is that there will eventually be a rewrite of some parts of the code in order to enable the use of OpenType on Linux. I am assuming that after that happens those two modules will no longer be needed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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